Publications
The following selection provides an example of the wealth of experience of the BCS team. For more information, and to request copies of publications, contact BCS at info@BCSynergies.com.
BCS Publications
- "Extending Trust: Techniques for Community Engagement in the Extractive Industries," BCS, 2009.
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"BG T&T Socio-Economic Baseline Assessment of the Central Block," BG T&T, 2009.
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The BCS Core Team Collaboration
- A. Rani Parker, Ph.D., Rose Dakin, Debbie Glassman, Ph.D. “The Potential for Community Development Foundations in Resource Abundant Countries: A Window of Opportunity for Madagascar,” The World Bank, 2007.
- A. Rani Parker, Ph.D. and Fred Wood, Ph.D. “Hidden Treasure? In Search of Mali’s Gold-Mining Revenues“, Oxfam America, 2007.
- A. Rani Parker Ph.D. and Rose Dakin, “Institutional Analysis and Mapping of Civil Society,” (Scoping report for a multinational mining company), 2006.
A. Rani Parker, Ph.D.
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- “A Planning Framework for the USAID-Chevron Partnership in Angola,”USAID, September 2006.
- “Aid Effectiveness in the Energy Sector, ” 2006 Energy Update, USAID (3)17.
- “Large Mines and Communities: Understanding and Assessing Company Contributions to Sustainable Development,” Business for Social Responsibility, 2005.
- “The Public-Private Alliances of USAID in Angola: An Assessment of Lessons Learned and Ways Forward,” USAID, 2004.
- “Prospects for NGO Collaboration with Multinational Enterprises,” in Jonathan P. Doh and Hildy Teegen (eds), Globalization and NGOs: Transforming Business, Government, and Society, Praeger, 2003.
- “Discovering How Direct Relationship Between Multinational Business and Community Groups can improve Development Effectiveness,” George Washington University, School of Business and Public Management, 2003.
- “Vested Interests in Technical Cooperation for Capacity Development,” United Nations Development Programme, 2002.
- “Guidance on Gender Integration in Child Immunization, Child Protection, Early Childhood Development, Girls Education and HIV/AIDS,” UNICEF, 2002.
- “Gender Relations Analysis: A Guide for Trainers,” Save the Children USA, 1998. Available in French and English.
- “Sharing Power and Responsibility: North/South Struggles in International Development Practice,” National Multicultural Institute, 1997.
- “A Girl’s Right to Development, Equality and Peace,” (with A. Clements, V. Jurgenson, A. Penrose and A. Petren) London: International Save the Children Alliance, 1995.
- “A Manual on Gender Analysis Training for Grassroots Workers,” 1993, UNIFEM.
- “Assessing Project Impact: A Practitioner’s Guide to Participatory Evaluation,” CEDPA, 1993.
- “Human Relations Training: Dealing with Ethnic Conflict,” SAWSO, 1991.
- “A Gender Analysis Matrix for Development Practitioners,” Praxis, Medford: The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1990.
Rose Dakin
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- “Mining for Corporate Accountability in the Extractive Industry,” in SAIS Perspectives: Sustainability in Development, 2008.
Debbie Glassman, Ph.D.
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- “Governance, Management and Accountability in Secondary Schools in Africa,” World Bank SEIA Project, 2008.
- Debbie Glassman, Wim Hopper and Joe DeStefano, “Alternative Pathways to EFA: Contributions of Non-Formal Education,” Association for the Development of Africa, Biennal Proceedings, Maputo, Mozambique, 2008.
- Debbie Glassman, Fred Wood, Jordan Naidoo, Community Schools in Africa: Reaching the Unreached, Springer and Save the Children, 2007.
- “A Future to Quality Schooling? Community Schools in Mali,” Association for the Development of Education in Africa Biennale, Mauritius, 2004.
- “Five Policy Proposals to Promote Community Schools in Africa,” Presentation to the Executive Committee, Association for the Development of Education in Africa, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004.
Fred Wood, Ph.D.
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- “Towards a New Policy in Early Childhood Development in Turkey,” UNICEF, 2007.
- “Gardens of Mothers and Children,” External assessment for UNICEF with emphasis on costs and benefits, UNICEF, Tirana, Albania, 2005.
- “Current UNICEF Approaches to Early Learning and Suggestions for Improvement,” UNICEF, New York, 2004.
- “Linkages between ECD, Girls’ Attainment in Primary School and other Social Benefits,” UNICEF, New York, 2004.
- “Education and Social Development in Post-Imperial Ethiopia,” Save the Children, 2002.
- “NGOs and INGOs: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship?,” Rockefeller Foundation 1991.
- “Training Malawi’s Youth: the Work of the Malawi Young Pioneers” in Community Development Journal, 1974.
- “Developing Educational Alternatives: Some New Ways for Education in Rural Areas,” in World Yearbook of Education: Education and Rural Development, Evan 1964.
- Informal Education and Development in Africa, Mouton, The Hague 1961.